Elektro Celje - First Slovenian Electrical Utility to Introduce the ArcFM UT System

April 5, 2011 -- Elektro Celje is one of the leading electricity distribution companies in Slovenia, covering roughly 22% of the territory of Slovenia, comprising the regions of the Savinjska, the Koroška and lower Posavska with a total of around 50 municipalities. The distribution network consists from more than 3500 km high and average voltage power lines, 3500 transformer stations, 30 distribution transformer stations and more than 12000 km low voltage distribution lines.

A Geographical Information System (GIS) was already introduced around 2001 – but 10 years later still many issues were not correctly covered, mainly a professional business application layer, a proper integration with their remote asset database and a web application covering the needs of different departments. This lead to a European Tendering Process in 2010, which was won by the Slovenian ESRI distributor GISDATA in conjunction with the AED-SICAD application suite ArcFM UT.

One of the main goals is the optimal integration of the remote asset database. Where end users now are entering asset data in a terminal server, in the future they can capture and maintain network data in the GIS-based asset management system ArcFM UT, such greatly easing data input and system handling. More importantly, current data quality issues in terms of data inconsistencies between databases and lack of up-to-dateness are being corrected, such greatly enhancing user confidence in system data.

The project implementation will be done by AED-SICAD business partner GISDATA. Project activities consist of deployment of ESRI and AED-SICAD software, data model definition, configuration of ArcFM UT, upgrading the current GIS Database and system integration. Additionally, GISDATA will advise users on how to possibly adapt business processes to leverage the new software tools to its full potential, and incorporate the experience and examples of best practices of past utility projects into the current project. Besides the implementation of the standard business tools, GISDATA will develop certain modules specific to Slovenia, such as the reporting to the register of public utility infrastructure (GJI). The solution supports a service oriented architecture and can easily be scaled to accommodate more functional units or further users. The implementation of the AED-SICAD GIS Portal and ArcFM UT Web is the basis for many Internet applications fulfilling the varying needs of Elektro Celje’s departments.

About Elektro Celje
Elektro Celje, d. d., company for electricity distribution, is a part of the electrical power supply system of the Republic of Slovenia, and operates as one of the five companies for electricity distribution in the country. The beginning of the company Elektro Celje d. d. dates far back in the year 1913 when along with the establishment of the first power-station in the town of Celje such an economic organization for supplying users with electricity in the narrower environs of Celje was set up. Because of the harmonization of the national legislation with the EU directive in the year 2007 the company lost the status of a (public) limited liability company and is now registered in the Court Register as a joint-stock company with a private law status. Elektro Celje, d. d. as a distributor of electrical power takes care of the maintenance, construction and reconstruction of power devices and objects in the regions of Savinjska, Koroška and Spodnjeposavska covering an area of 4,345 km². Elektro Celje, d. d. as a supplier of electrical power takes care of ensuring quality, reliable and cost-efficient power supply in the entire area of Slovenia. The electrical energy from Elektro Celje was distributed into 144,886 Slovenian homes within the year 2009 and transmitted to 9,689 business customers whom we have thus ensured with 1,609 GWh of electrical power altogether. http://www.elektro-celje.si

About GISDATA
Gisdata Group is the leading regional GIS company, privately owned and on the market since 1989. With offices in Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Albania, our company represents the strongest GIS integrator and data provider. We have more than 500 references in the region and worldwide. Gisdata Group is the regional distributor of ESRI and AED – SICAD software.

About AED-SICAD
AED-SICAD Aktiengesellschaft (AED-SICAD), Bonn/Munich, Germany, is the leading GIS application company in Europe. AED-SICAD employs more than 200 people. Their portfolio comprises high-end geo-information systems for the key segments utilities, cadastre and land management. With ArcFMä UT for the utility industry and LM on ArcGIS® for cadastre and land management, AED-SICAD develops cutting-edge GIS applications and solutions based on the worldwide leading ArcGIS core technology. http://www.aed-sicad.com



Contacts:

GISDATA
Mr. Peter Malavesic
Tel. +386 8 200 1650
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AED-SICAD
Florian Brandi-Dohrn
Tel. +49 (89) 45026 217
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